《Sugar Trade》歌词

歌曲： Sugar Trade

所属专辑：Dad Loves His Work

歌手： James Taylor

时长： 02:48

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Sugar Trade - James Taylor[00:00:00]

Written by：James Taylor/Timothy Mayer/Jimmy Buffett[00:00:00]

Now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel[00:00:06]

And back when your grandfather's father was young[00:00:12]

Men of these shores made and gave up their lives[00:00:17]

Pulling up fish from the sea[00:00:23]

While down in the african slavery trade[00:00:28]

Stealing young men to cut sugar cane[00:00:35]

Rum to new bedford and codfish from maine[00:00:41]

They were building a wall that will always remain[00:00:46]

Oh the crown and the cross the musket and chain[00:00:53]

The white man's religion the family name[00:00:59]

Two hundred years later and who is to blame[00:01:05]

The captain or the cargo or the juice of the sugar cane[00:01:11]

The doryman he knows when the riptides will run[00:01:20]

He sets out his nets and he sits in the sun[00:01:26]

He thinks of his family and drinks of his rum[00:01:31]

And he waits for the codfish to come[00:01:37]

It's the same god damned ocean that keeps them alive[00:01:43]

It will swallow you up it will let you survive[00:01:49]

It will heal you and steal you and take you away[00:01:55]

Like a note in a bottle with nothing to say[00:02:00]

Now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel[00:02:08]

Back when your grandfather's father was young[00:02:14]

Men of these shores made and gave up their lives[00:02:19]

Pulling up fish from the sea[00:02:25]